…than curse the darkness.
Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International, died on Friday evening.

Rev. Rehash on www.rehashinate.com has a little banner in support of two Iranian bloggers whose government has denied their right to freedom of expression and detained them without trial. Reading the story and doing a little research led me – as these things often do – to investigating the death penalty. Specifically, which countries have [...]

Hunter S. Thompson shot himself to death last night. Was it suicide? Was it a joke? Was it the drugs? Was it an accident? Who knows?
But looking at this picture it’s hard to be surprised by the method of self-erasure he chose.

I’ve been kind-of a fan for years, ever since I saw them in support of Radiohead in Oxford, but recently I’ve been getting more into Sigur Rós. Yes, yes, I know I’ve come to them fairly late, but I’ve not been buying quite as many CDs for the last couple of years and it’s not [...]

Picture this:
Sexy all-American girl (white skin, blonde hair, wide mouth) sitting astride a supersized bucking bronco machine, holding supersized burger. A bluesy rawk riff chugs and stomps in the background. The bronco bucks in gelatinous slo-mo. The girl sways atop, one hand in the air, the other still wrapped around the burger. Burger gets bitten, [...]

This photo, from Norwich’s 3-2 victory over West Brom (only our third win this season) struck me as being very strange indeed. I love the way photography can make everyday life look utterly alien.
And if you’re wondering “Ostranenie?” click here.

Welcome back, everyone! After about three weeks of downtime I’m able to post again. Bad news is, Portland have completely erased the contents of my website. And while Blogger (the thing which keeps everything organised) maintains an archive of all the text somewhere else, it does not do the same for the pictures. All the [...]